It ultimately depends upon how powerful your computer is, particularly for HD.

You cab always assemble the chapters during Disk creation stage, just hit add new media button. So how you get there is open story. RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB GDDR6
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I would appreciate your input. If you are producing a longer video with multiple chapters, how do you lay it out on your timeline?

I am making a video that will be 15 to 18 minutes, composed of 3 to 5 chapters.

Should I make 3 to 5 different files/timelines and combine them when finished or should I simply make a single 15 to 18 minute timeline and add chapter points when finished?

Thank you,
Tony

You can assemble a project from any number of media files, like a vacation project I put together has hundreds of video clips and photos. After I edited it all, in the Chapter Room, I just plopped the chapter markers in wherever they needed to be. A lot easier than making each chapter be a separate project, and then assembling them into one project. If you did that, you'd still need to put your chapter markers in where you want them.

rbowser

It also depends on what you are starting with. I work with 4 to 8 minutes clips that I produce individually. Then I bring about 12 of them into a project to create the DVD. At that point I set each clip to a chapter.

For a shorter project like you have, I would probably just go through the project and find the spots where I want a chapter to be rather than break it up further into small clips. I don't see either way as better, so it just depends on which is faster and easier for the given situation. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

OK. Thank you to everyone who responded.

Tony